Directed by Harold Pinter • Theatre • 1974 • UK, US • English
Starring Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale

Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a self-made train wreck of an English Literature professor who experiences a truly awful day. Accla...

Directed by Tony Richardson • Theatre • 1976 • US • English
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield

An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Oscar-winners K...

Directed by Joseph Losey • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely

Topol ("Fiddler on the Roof") and a cast of British theatrical aristocracy ground Bertolt Brecht's famous interpretation of the troubled life and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astrono...

Directed by Peter Hall • Theatre • 1973 • UK, US • English
Starring Paul Rogers, Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack

A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, but the family reunion has unexpected and disturbing consequences. Based on one of Harold Pi...

Directed by John Frankenheimer • Theatre • 1973 • US • English
Starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan

Considered the definitive film version of Eugene O'Neill's play, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes. Lee...

Directed by Lindsay Anderson • Theatre • 1975 • UK, US • English
Starring Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye

Lindsay Anderson turns his acclaimed Royal Court Theater run into a riveting cinematic interpretation of David Storey's ferocious play. In their tiny Yorkshire house, God-fearing and h...

Directed by Denis Heroux • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
Starring Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel

Eschewing conventional narrative, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” transforms Mort Shuman and Eric Blau's beloved 35-song stage revue into an infectious movie musical that ...

Directed by Daniel Mann • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques

Daniel Mann ("The Rose Tattoo") transforms Alan Paton's novel of racial oppression “Cry the Beloved Country” into a tragic and beautiful film musical. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's luci...

Directed by Guy Green • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Stacy Keach, Peter Cellier, Judi Dench

John Osborne's play is a fascinating and powerful psychological study of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther, examining his central role in the birth of Protestantism and revolt against the Roman...

Directed by Christopher Miles • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
Starring Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant

Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Paris maids who tend to a cruel socialite's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role...

Directed by Arthur Hiller • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
Starring Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and ...

Directed by John Quested • Theatre • 1977 • US • English
Starring Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKenna

Set in playwright Brian Friel's mythical Ballybeg, Ireland, The American Film Theatre's “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” presents an ingenious glimpse into the stock-taking of young Gareth "Gar...

Directed by Tom O'Horgan • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black

The film version of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play tells of a French city where the citizens begin to turn mysteriously into rhinoceroses. Zero Mostel creates his Tony-winning Broadway role, ...

Directed by Laurence Olivier, John Sichel • Theatre • 1970 • US, Europe • English
Starring Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell

Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in exile in a remote Russian village is given the all-star treatment by director and star L...